Question

According to Coleridge, the poet is:

• A. A passive observer
• B. An active creator
• C. A historian
• D. A philosopher

Answer 1

Answer:

B. An active creator

According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet is someone who can create a poem that evokes a sense of unity and balance. Coleridge believed that a good poet uses their imagination to combine the faculties of the soul to create a poem that is both pleasurable and truthful. 

• Imagination

  Coleridge believed that a poet's imagination is the soul of poetry. It's the power that allows a poet to blend the natural and artificial, and to reconcile opposites. 

• Balance

  Coleridge believed that a good poet can create a balance between the parts of a poem and the whole. This balance is achieved through the judicious combination of parts. 

• Pleasure

  Coleridge believed that a poem should provide pleasure through its metrical language and arrangement of parts. He also believed that poetry should convey truth and fact. 

• Emotion

  Coleridge believed that poetry should express and arouse emotions. He also believed that poetry doesn't emerge from the immediate emotion of the moment, but from the tranquil recollection of that emotion.